CFP: The Cinema of Tod Browning (no deadline noted; collection)

full name / name of organization:

Bernd Herzogenrath

contact email:

bernd.herzogenrath@post.rwth-aachen.de

I am currently looking for high-quality contributions to a volume on =THECINEMA OF TOD BROWNING =96 a major press (Wallflower Press) has alrea=dyexpressed interest in this project.Tod Browning has up to this day remained a somewhat un(der)-theorized= moviemaker. Also having produced successes such as Dracula (with Bela Lugo=si) andfulminant financial disasters such as Freaks, the impact of his obses=sionwith the (representation of the) body, its fragmentation and dismembe=rment,on the development on Modern Cinema remains to be analysed. In partic=ularwith reference to much of today=92s discussion about corporeality andmateriality, with body-images versus =91the body as such,=92 Browning==92s moviesseem to provide a crucial focus for these discussions.

Since this volume should also serve as both a specialist=92 compendiu=m and anintroduction to Browning=92s work, I want to make sure that not only =Freaksand Dracula, but also the =91lesser known=92 movies, and also those m=ovies hewrote the script for, such as the Fairbanks vehicle The Mystery of Th=eLeaping Fish, are considered.